5 Winners. 2) Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
If you're black, a great singer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist, and you're blind and not Ray Charles, then in life you can only hope - at best - to be number two.
Instead, the "wonder boy" has always been number one, from the very start. And he hasn't stopped being that, even when his creativity has run dry and his records have become pure craftsmanship. Yet that "Wonder touch" has made even the worst gigs shine, and in the end, he never really gave away his passion.
A quiet life (yes, a car accident with a resulting coma and a painful divorce don't provide much material for narratives and hagiographies), a calm career, some quietly fought battles, often won...
A quiet winner.
Today he enjoys his nine children, his fame, his talent (and also his money...).
And the cursed artist, the sex, the drugs, the demons, the youthful angst, the "live fast die young"?
Naaaaaa! Close your eyes, listen to the music: isn't it (she) lovely?